Princeton University, Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 39L

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DS ID:

DS29438

Shelfmark:

Islamic Manuscripts Garrett no. 39L

Title:

Kharīdat al-ʻajāʼib wa-farīdat al-gharāʼib / خريدة العجائب وفريدة الغرائب

Author:

Ibn al-Wardī, Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar, -1457 / ابن الوردي، سراج الدين ابو حفص عمر، -1457

Sirāj al-Dīn Abū Ḥafṣ ʻUmar Ibn al-Wardī WIKIDATA

Ibn al-Wardī, Zayn al-Dīn ʻUmar ibn al-Muẓaffar, -1349 / ابن الوردي، زين الدين عمر بن المظفر، -1349

Ibn al-Wardi WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Zaydī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥusayn, active 17th century / زيدي، عبد الرحمن بن حسين، active 17th century

Date:

12 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1019 [June 4, 1610

seventeenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ara

Arabic WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 110 leaves : paper ; 250 x 165 (215 x 135) mm bound to 255 x 182 mm.

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
The first three folios are by a later hand. The authorʼs name is given on page three as Zayn al-Dīn ʻAlī ibn al-Wardī al-Shāfiʻī. Collection of short oddities about animals (fol. 110b). Brief inscriptions, including a note about the number of folios (fol. 1a).
Collation: Paper ; fol. 110 ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil using Western numerals.
Layout: 21 lines per page.
Description: Rubricated ; watermarks (fol. 1-3: three crescents, roman-alphabet letters; fol. 4-110: anchor topped with trefoil) ; MS in good condition.
Origin: According to colophon copy completed 12 Rabīʻ al-Awwal 1019 by ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḥusayn al-Zaydī (fol. 110a).
Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.

Keyword:

Watermarks

Headbands

Manuscripts, Arabic

New Jersey--Princeton

Islamic cosmology

Early works

Geography, Medieval

Institutional Record:

https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9963573723506421

IIIF Manifest:

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/e980b3c8-cf7e-490c-81b1-606079b0b927/manifest

Holding Institution:

Princeton University